The West last week struck a blow for A.P. Correspondent William Oatis, imprisoned in Czechoslovakia on charges of "espionage" (TIME, May 7). The U.S., Great Britain and France jointly prohibited Red Czechoslovakia's airlines from flying over West Germany. The prohibition means that the Czech airlines will have to detour hundreds of miles to make their flights to
Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam. Cried a Czech spokesman: "Open discrimination against the Czechoslovak Republic!"
The Czech radio, meanwhile, broadcast a letter which Oatis was supposed to have written "freely" to his wife Laurabelle: "I am sure that you must be surprised that I have been arrested....
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